Thread-holding device.



PATENTED DEC. 26, 1905. R. ROWLEY & L. s. RUBIRA.

THREAD HOLDING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED IEB.8, 1905..

PATENT onnrcn.

ROBERT ROWLEY AND. LUOIANO SANTOSRUBIRA, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

THREAD-HOLDING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 26, 1905.

Application filed February 8, 1905. Serial No. 244,728-

borough of Manhattan, county of New York,

and State of New York, have made and invented certain new and useful Improvements in Thread-Holding Devices, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a device for use in connection with spools wound with cotton or thread, the object or purpose of which is to receive and retain the end of the thread or cotton in order that the same may be prevented from unwin ing.

It is now the common ractice to provide one end of the spool wit a cut or slit into which the end of the cotton or thread is in-.

serted and held. In'use, however, the slitted ortion ofthe spool soon becomes broken or c 'pped oil, the wood of which the spool is made-being thin and easily broken at the ends where the cut is usually made.

The object of our invention is to provide a device, preferably of metal, which will be cheap of manufacture, neat in a pearance, easily and readily attached to an detached from a spool of ordinary size and construe tion, and which will effectively hold the cot ton or thread.

With these and other ends in view it consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Fi ure 1 is a view in perspective of our improve device applied to a spool of cotton. Fig. 2 is a view of the same in vertical section, taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are views of a modified form of the device. Fig. 7 is a view of another form thereof, and Fig. 8 shows the latter applied to a spool of cotton. Fig. 9 is a plan view of still another form, and Fig. 10 a view thereof in side elevation.

By reference to the illustrations above mentioned it will be seen that the device may assume many and various shapes, the gist of" the invention lying in the employment of a retaining spring or springs adapted to fit in the opening in the spool and havlng the rotruding end or ends thereof provided wit means for holding the end of the thread, such means consisting either of a pair of disks between which the thread may be inserted, as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2,'and 3, or, as illustrated in Figs. 4, 5, and 6, these means may consist of a lug o'r finger struck u from a single disk, or, again, as illustrated in igs. 7 and 8, may consist of'one or more coils of wire formed integral With the retaining-spring. Further, as shownin Figs. 9 and 10, these means may consist of an arm or elongated plate secured to a disk, between which disk and arm the thread may be inserted, and, in fact, numerous other changes and modifications will suggest themselves to a person skilled in this particular line of manufacture, the essential features being a retaining spring or springs fitting within the o ening in the spool and having means provided at the end thereof into which the thread maybe readily inserted, and therebyretained.

In Figs. 1, 2, and 3 the retaining-spring is shown consisting of the loop A made of spring-wire, the same bein passed through and secured to the disks B, ying flat against the spool C and also through the smaller outer disk D,said retaining-spring A fitting within the openin E of the spool and retaining the several dis s in their proper position with relationto thes 001. The cottonorthreadFis easily and readfi slipped in between the disks D and B and he (1 thereby, being first assed in the notch G, formed in the larger 'sk, if desired.

In Figs. 4, 5, and 6 the device consists of a sin le disk H, slitted as shown, those portions I o the metal being stamped downwardly, as clearly shown in Figs. 5 and 6, to form the retaining-spring. The metal of the disk is also so slitted as to allow striking u a lug or finger K, the point of which W1 1 be slightly raised, as shown in Fig. 6, in order to allow the insertion of the cotton or thread under it:

In Figs. 7 and 8 the device. is shown as made of a single piece of wire, the retainin sprin consistin of the loop L, which is coile into a sprmg M to form the fastening means for the thread, the latter being easily inserted between the folds of the wire when the device is applied to the spool, as illustrated in Fig. 8.

In Fig. 9 the device consists of the disk N, to which is secured the bent or curved plate 0, these two plates having secured thereto thespring-arm P, formed of spring-wire, as in the case of the device first described, it being understood that the end of the thread in order to be retained is assed under the curved s ring-plate O, which in connection with the 'sk N clamps and holds it.

In each of these instances it will be noted that the device consists of a retaining-sprin adapted to fit within the opening of the spoo and removably secure said device in place and of aclamping device or means formed on or secured to said retaining-spring for clampin and retaining the end of the thread. It Wi 1 also be understood that the device is exceedingly simple in construction, can be readily inserted in place, may be easily removed from one spool when the cotton or-thread is entirely used up and inserted in place in another spool, and will effectively retain the end of the thread, so as to-keep the same from unwinding from the spool.

Having fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is v 1. An improved thread holding device comprising a disk ap roXimately the size of the end of the spool and having a spring member fixed to it and adapted to enter the opening in the spool, and a member lying substantially parallel with the disk and located interior to the edge thereof and between which member and said disk the thread is passed. i

2. An improved thread-holding device consisting of two coaotin members adapted to lie substantially paral. el with each other and with the end of the spool, between which members the thread is passed, and a loopedj spring member adapted to enter the opening in the spool said spring having the ortion intermediate of the ends adapted to rictionally en age the wall of said opening, 7

bigned at New York, borough of'Manhattan, county of New York, and State of New York, this 4th day of February, 1905.

' ROBERT ROVVLEY. LUOIANO SANTOS RUBIRA. Witnesses:

GEORGE 000K, M. VAN NORTWICK. 

